A bit more aperture this evening

[John]

Bristol AS outreach event tonight. I got to pilot our JMI NGT 18 inch, which was fun

The scope is around 30 years old but still works pretty well. Moving it around takes a bit of getting used to but the scope has a rotating upper tube assembly with the focuser and finders attached so that helps get the viewing position reasonably accessible. 

Targets were the usual suspects for this season. I stuck to things lower in the sky to avoid too much ladder work for the shorter guests.

Very nice being able to use a large aperture on targets normally observed with my own smaller scopes

Highlight for me was probably Messier 57 at 280x - it was starting to look a bit like the images

Nice night and happy visitors

 

 

Edited November 4, 2021 by John

[Ags]

Did you see sny color in M57?

[John]

7 minutes ago, Ags said:

Did you see sny color in M57?

Maybe some pale green in places but nothing obvious to my 60+ year old eye.

It was the strong contrast and the image scale that was impressive.